in camera

Japanese: in camera(英語表記)incamera
in camera

...It is said that the geometer Euclid, who lived in the 3rd century BCE, recognized that a ray of light passing through a small hole in the wall of a dark room could project a scene from the outside, and that in the 11th century, Arabs were enjoying using camera obscura made from a tent. In Anglo-American law, a judge's private room is called a camera, and the phrase "in camera" is often used (meaning private room of a judge, in private), which makes sense when you consider that the etymology of the word camera means a small room as well as a camera. Of course, all modern cameras, except for pinhole cameras, cannot be thought of without a photographic lens to form an image on the surface of photographic film, and the camera can be said to be a device to maximize the effectiveness of this lens. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "in camera" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…すでに前3世紀の幾何学者ユークリッドは,暗い部屋の壁面の小孔を通る光線により外の風景が投影されることを認めていたといわれ,また11世紀ころにはアラビア人たちが天幕製のカメラ・オブスキュラを楽しんでいたという。英米法において判事の私室をcameraといい,しばしばin camera(判事の私室で,内密にの意)という使い方をされるのも,語源的にはcameraが写真機とともに小部屋を意味することを考えれば首肯される。 もちろん現今のカメラは,ピンホールカメラ以外すべて写真フィルム面上に像を結ぶための撮影レンズなしでは考えられず,このレンズの機能を最大限有効に引き出すための装置であるといえる。…

※「in camera」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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